Romeo And Juliet Play Quotes - Page 4

• Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Home Cooking, Entrepreneur

  1595 Servingman to Capulet. Romeo andJuliet, act 4, sc.2, l.6.

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• O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Angel, Night

  1595 Romeo of Juliet. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.1, l.68-70.

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• Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Womb

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.268, Barron's Educational Series

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• I dreamt my lady came and found me dead . . . . . . . . . . . . And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Lips, Found

  William Shakespeare (1993). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.229, Heinemann

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• Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight. Mercutio: And so did I. Romeo: Well, what was yours? Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Romeo: In bed asleep while they do dream things true.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Lying, Bed

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.34, Oldcastle Books

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• Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Unrequited Love, Sleep

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.40, Barron's Educational Series

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• One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Fire, Burning

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.36, Classic Books Company

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• I will make thee think thy swan a crow.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Swans, Crow

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.800

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• Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.

  William Shakespeare

  Gratitude, Proud, Juliet

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 5, l. 153

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• Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Sleep, Eye

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Plays”, p.37

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• If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Blind, Mark

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Romeo and Juliet (Annotated with Biography and Critical Essay)”, p.43, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, Romeo Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Important

  1595 Romeo. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.1, l.93-4.

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• True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Children, Air

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1828). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare”, p.392

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• If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,
  My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
  My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne,
  And all this day an unaccustomed spirit
  Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Sleep, Hands

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. 3

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• In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond.

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, Scene, Fairs

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 92

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• Then love-devouring Death do what he dare.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Devouring, Dare

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149, Classic Books Company

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• ROMEO There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh. Come, cordial and not poison, go with me To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Farewell, Men, Soul

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.840

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• Out of her favour, where I am in love.

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, Favour, Romeo Juliet

  William Shakespeare (1747). “Romeo and Juliet. A tragedy. Now acting ... by his Majesty's Servants, at the Theatre-Royal in Smock-Alley”, p.10

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• These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Fire, Long

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149, Classic Books Company

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• Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death’s.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Son, Law

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions : with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage”, p.475

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• Romeo: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much. Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Men, Doors

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. [100]

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• Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Earth, Dull

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.811

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• Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.

  William Shakespeare

  Holiday, Shops, Beggar

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. 72

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• A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Gentleman, Months

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• O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Men, Temptation

  William Shakespeare (1871). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.260

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